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FORMER Trade and Industry Minister Stephen Cadiz said he was pleased with the outcome of the April 28 election as it meant the people of Trinidad and Tobago had said they were tired of the suffering they had endured under the People's National Movement (PNM).

Speaking to Newsday at the National Library and Information System Authority in Port of Spain on May 2, Cadiz said, “I was part of the first term and like everything else there are situations. But what the PNM promised in 2015, it never materialised, so after ten years of beating people into submission, people said, ‘No, we’re done with that.' And I was very pleased with the outcome of the election.

“We have been suffering for the last ten years from a government that had no respect for the people of this country, and that can be supported by numerous things that have happened. The famous ‘you ain’t riot yet’ and a whole host of things, the issue with the pensions and you giving yourself a $87,000 a month pension. You have unions who have been scrambling to have three three-year agreements settled and they can’t settle them as yet.”